Word Meanings - SPANGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress. 2. Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich spangles that adorn the sky." Waller. Oak spangle. See under Oak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPANGLE)

• Tinsel
• Tawdriness
• spangle
• frippery
• glitter

Related words: (words related to SPANGLE)

• GLITTER
  glitenian, OS. glitan, OHG. glizzan, G. gleissen, Goth. glitmunjan, 1. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword. The field yet glitters with the pomp of war. Dryden. 2.
• TAWDRINESS
  Quality or state of being tawdry. A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful by tawdriness of dress. Richardson.
• SPANGLE
  1. A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress. 2. Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich spangles that adorn the sky." Waller. Oak spangle. See under Oak.
• FRIPPERY
  1. Coast-off clothes. B. Jonson. 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott. 3. A place where old clothes
• GLITTERINGLY
  In a glittering manner.
• GLITTERAND
  Glittering. Spenser.
• TINSEL
  1. A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like. Who can discern
• SPANGLER
  One who, or that which, spangles.
• TINSELLY
  Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
• BESPANGLE
  To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.
• AGLITTER
  Clittering; in a glitter.
• STAR-SPANGLED
  Spangled or studded with stars. Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national ensign of the United States. F. S. Key.